Who is Norman Fairclough?

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Norman Fairclough is one of experts of Discourse Analysis, especially Critical Discourse Analysis expert. Critical Discourse Analysis is a branch of Discourse Analysis that focuses to the influence of power relations on writings context and structure. He was born on 1941.

There are some theorists in linguistic field and ideology who have influenced Norman Fairclough's theories. They are Mikhail Bakhtin and Michael Halliday in linguistics field, and Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Michael Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu on the sociological one.

 

Fairclough have started his research that focused on CDA since the early 1980s. It was including the language place in social relations of and ideology, and how language figures in social change processes. Over the past three years, from a discourse analytical perspective, Fairclough has been working specifically on aspects of transition in Central and Eastern Europe, especially Romania. This research is based upon theoretical claim that discourse is a social life element which has connection with other elements, and may have effects of constructive and transformative on other elements.

There are three elements as Fairclough's contribution to this research.

 1. Theoretical development of CDA to enhance its capacity to contribute to this area of social research.

2. Developing approaches to linguistics analysis of text and interactions which are adapted to social research.

3. Application of this theory and method in researching aspects of contemporary social change.

Textually Oriented Discourse Analysis (TODA) is a Fairclough's study line.

Fairclough have also published many books. One of them is Language and Power. It has three editions. 

1. Language and Power first edition in 1989

2. Language and Power second edition in 2001

3. 2014, third edition.

Not only books, there are a lot of journals and articles that are published by him. For the list of those articles or journals, you can see in my previous posting (PPT about Norman Fairclough)😊.

 References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Fairclough